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CASE46642: Decumbiture for Robert Rider (PERSON34748)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38394) on 16 May 1618 at 08:00

RN may 8 at fryday it tooke him about 12 in the night it first tooke him in his legs wth a shooting & sinc it rūneth vp into his hed making him to talke idlely a light head |Is grown starke mad.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 101v (upper left part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON38394)Robert Rider (PERSON34748)

Medical >Parts of the body >Limbs and joints (Legs)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Pain and pricking (Shooting)

Medical >Parts of the body >Head and neck (Head)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Idle talkLightheaded (passions) Mad)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment Astrological Chart

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CASE48042: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Teare (PERSON35944)

Question asked by the patient on 7 January 1619 at 16:15

RN Agnys Teare of Hutchin 55 y Ian. 7 ♃ h. 4. 15 p m 16i9. /troubled in mynd chest ill hed light\

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 131r (upper right part of page)

Agnes Teare (PERSON35944)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (TroubledMindLightheaded (passions) )

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso (Chest)

Medical >Illness (general) (Illness)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f1-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body;f2-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind%3A%3ALightheaded%20%28passions%29;f3-patient-age-band=050-059, accessed 14 January 2025.

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